States Quotes - Page 48

The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.

Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition? Whatever it was, I for one had never been spoiled with smiles. I found it very pleasant! ... I was beginning to understand that with Americans smiling was, as with healthy infants, a natural need. And my reaction was to respond in the same way.

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

I don’t think there’s ever what could be called a "chilled state" in my head.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. I have been tested as recently as 2004, and I am clean.

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps it's improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We've become a lunatic asylum.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.

California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we need to be able to provide a pathway to citizenship. We need to be able to allow them to be here legally and to do the work that they are doing and that we need.